Cookies

This text is a draft for review by counsel before launch.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device. Similar tools, such as the browser's local storage, do the same job, and this text calls all of them cookies. They let the site remember you between pages and visits.

How aali uses cookies

We use as few as we can. They fall into three groups.

• Essential: keep you signed in, protect forms and payments, remember your language and spread the load across our servers. The site cannot work without them, so they are always on.
• Preferences: remember choices such as your language, the filters you set in the course catalogue and your cookie choices.
• Statistics: tell us, in combined form, which pages are visited and where people get stuck, so that we can improve the site. We switch them on only if you accept them.

At launch we do not plan to use advertising cookies or to follow you across other websites. If that changes, we will ask for your consent first and update this page [marketing cookies: to be confirmed].

Your choices

When you first visit, a banner asks you to accept or decline the cookies that are not essential. Declining is as easy as accepting, and the site works fully either way. You can change your choice at any time from the "Cookie settings" link at the foot of every page [settings link: to be confirmed].

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the essential ones, you will not be able to sign in or pay.

Who sets them

aali sets most cookies. Some are set by providers that help us run the site, for example for video playback, payment or statistics, and they may use them only for the service they give us. Their names and purposes are listed in a table that we keep up to date [cookie table: to be confirmed].

What they do in practice

• Sign-in: a token that keeps you signed in while you study and ends when you sign out or after a period of inactivity.
• Security: a token that checks a form really comes from you, and limits repeated sign-in attempts.
• Payment: a session marker that holds your order while you pay.
• Language and display: your language, and whether you chose a light or a dark display.
• Catalogue: the filters you set, so that you find them as you left them when you come back from a course page.
• Statistics: an anonymous visit identifier that counts visits without your name.

Content from other providers

Our pages may include video or maps from another provider, and that provider may set its own cookies when the content loads. Wherever we can, we load such content only after you press play or agree to it [loading on request: to be confirmed]. The provider's own policy applies to what it sets, and we suggest you read it.

Why we ask for your consent

Essential cookies need no consent because the service stops without them. For the rest we ask for free and specific consent: we do not make access to the site depend on accepting, we do not hide the decline button, and we do not keep asking after you decline. Consent works for each browser and device separately.

Your rights over cookie data

You may be able to see the data these cookies collected about you or ask for it to be deleted, in the way the privacy notice explains. If you withdraw consent to statistics, we stop collecting them from that moment and delete what can be tied to you. If you open aali through your employer's network or learning platform, that body may set its own cookies too, under its own policy.

How long they last

Session cookies disappear when you close the browser. Other cookies last for a set period, from a few days to about a year [periods: to be confirmed]. We keep your language and cookie choices longest, so that we do not ask you at every visit.

Shared devices and emails

On a shared device, sign out when you finish and avoid accepting the non-essential cookies. Our emails may contain a small image that tells us whether the message was opened; you can stop it by turning off image loading in your mail program [message tracking: to be confirmed].

Cookies and your data

Some cookies hold personal data, such as a sign-in token, and we handle that data as the privacy notice describes. We do not read your messages through cookies, and we do not sell the information they gather.

Can cookies harm my device

No. Cookies are small pieces of text; they do not run programs or carry viruses. Still, take care on shared or public devices, where someone else may use a session you left open.

Signals from your browser

If your browser sends a signal asking sites not to track you, we treat it as a decline of the statistics cookies.

Changes and contact

We update this page when we add or remove a kind of cookie, show the date of the update at its top, and ask for your consent again if a change needs it. Questions about cookies: [contact email: to be confirmed] or the contact page.